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with me. headlines welcome to the program. the un security council says an investigation is needed into allegations of a deadly chemical attack in syria opposition there is accusing forces of gassing hundreds of people near damascus on wednesday but the syrian government claims the allegations are a diversion to coincide with the visit of a chemical weapons team the new york correspondent. the deputy secretary general john allison was also on hand at the closed door security council consultations he said that there is no confirmation of the use of chemical weapons and he says that this needs to be underlined meanwhile britain's foreign minister william hague said that the alleged attacks should be an eye opener for all those who support assad his comments leave no options open to the fact that an opposition

or terrorist group could be responsible for the alleged use of chemical weapons now may be no coincidence that the syrian opposition is making these allegations latest allegations against the syrian government just a few days after a team of u.n. inspectors arrived in damascus to examine previous suspected cases of chemical weapon use in the war torn country meanwhile officials from the russian foreign ministry say that reports by quote biased regional media unquote about the alleged chemical weapon use near damascus might be a provocation planned in advance russian foreign ministry saving its sources said that a homemade rocket carrying unidentified chemical substances may have been launched from an area controlled by the opposition now the incident reportedly took place on territory surrounding the syrian capital although the region on the outskirts of

damascus is known for its opposition inclinations and has been the site of past clashes between government forces and the rebels experts say an al qaeda affiliate has had a long time presence there and the area has faced sustained military pressure for months. and i brought him back and is the director of the anti war coalition he says the very timing of these allegations alternately cost a huge question mark over all the issues completely root ludicrous that the syrian government would use chemical weapons at the very moment that the un is a launching its investigation about chemical weapons and especially since the syrian government has its advantage but none of it matters what really matters is what the intention is of the white house in there or their friends in london in terms of escalating their own intervention i think the big goal of the of those who carry out the stage provocation is to disrupt any sort of negotiations that could

lead to a positive outcome for the existing syrian government meaning that the forces of the civil war had not succeeded in this lodging the assad government that's their plan because they know without western intervention without escalated foreign intervention there is no possible way they can succeed on the syrian battlefield they don't have the popular support in syria and they don't have the military wherewithal to defeat the syrian government are still to come in the program here on our t.v. while the main goal for many in egypt's revolution was to see former president hosni mubarak behind bars to reporters a bit later the leader could be walking free within hours of course one of the explains why in just a few minutes. the meantime here on arts he became evident the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden used e-mail provide a lot of a bit of the service fell under massively increased scrutiny of the u.s. federal authorities demanded the turn over information about its customers however

its owner took the decision to actually shut down the company saying he'd rather do that than perpetrate what he called a crime against the american people by cooperating with the government. and explain to my colleagues what specifically motivated him to make his decision. if i had continued to operate i felt like it would have put me in a ethically compromising position. in other words the service no longer would have been what i intended it to be which was a secure and private method of communication for americans so you posted a message on line saying that you were in an impossible situation that either you would quote you here become complicit in crimes against the american people or walk away from a decade of your hard work what do you think you would have faced if you didn't shut down the service when you say no to the government. they have the ability to

take everything they have the ability to take your business take your money and take your freedom and there really isn't all that much you can do about it. i was looking at the very real possibility of an impossible debt and possibly being put in jail and still not being able to tell people why i was even in jail you wrote on the line that without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent that you would advise people users against trusting a company that has physical ties to the us why is that all of the major providers here in the us. have provided. our government with real time access to the private information of their users and they don't really have a choice about it and they don't really have the ability to tell anybody about. it so the fact is if you trust your data to

a company even if they they haven't already been approached. and been required to provide access the simple fact is they could be in the future. staying with will i was here and bradley manning's lawyer says he will appeal for a presidential pardon after the man responsible for a massive revelation of u.s. war crimes was sentenced to thirty five years behind bars of course the prosecution wanted manning jailed for sixty years but the judge at his court martial refused to hand down the maximum term more on this now with artie's guy in a church you can. bradley manning supporters who gathered at the white house this evening say he sent bruce is unjust and unfair after all many who committed murder got away with less than thirty five years bradley manning has received a prison sentence that was ten years longer than the period of time after which many of the documents you released would have been automatically be classified bradley manning and his the friends are submitting a request for

a pardon the president of the united states has the power to pardon him and you see many people here wearing t. shirts and carrying banners that say part in bradley in his request for the president's pardon bradley manning talked about the post nine eleven age the age of the war on terror saying in the efforts to meet the wrists the u.s. has forgotten its humanity but will he manage to outweigh the desire of the government to make an example out of bradley manning to discourage future whistleblowers bradley manning also has supporters who were somewhat relieved by the sentence so pleased he is not going to spend the rest of his life in prison as prosecutors wanted his lawyer said in ten years bradley manning will get a chance to be released on parole there is hardly any chance president obama will pardon him really especially in the current environment of the government's crackdown on whistleblowers and environment where you have the new whistleblower edward snowden someone who was not discouraged by the crackdown so the government

definitely doesn't want more people following suit as far as public support is concerned bradley manning has probably gained more support in the wake of edward snowden revelations more and more people are starting to realize that the government will always be trying to sweep controversial issues on the u.s. she may have never left iraq could be iraqi government granting them immunity from prosecution or something that the obama administration was trying to negotiate around the same time bradley manning leaked all those opening files president obama would have not announced a review of n.s.a. surveillance programs if it weren't for edward snowden and whether or not that review is just a. gesture is a question worth asking of course but still we wouldn't be even having those conversations if it weren't for them and the supporters of bradley manning saying what's at stake here is not just manning scooter but also the future of journalism and the public's right to be informed on the actions that their government is

taking on their behalf in washington i'm going to check on well peter tatchell is one of the activists who's been campaigning in support of bradley manning he says the u.s. government has declared a full out war on whistleblowers. it is quite extraordinary that bradley manning has got thirty five years for telling the truth and exposing us war crimes lies and cover ups while the people who committed these criminal acts have walked away scot free they have never ever been prosecuted it is a notable fact that president obama has how ruston chased and prosecuted more whistle blows than even right wing republicans like richard nixon and ronald reagan that is a pretty damning indictment of president obama and his democratic administration from whistleblowers are not criminals they are the canaries in the mine who warned us about the danger they warned us about untruths about hidden reality that people

in power don't want us to know whistleblowers are essential to the more. still to come here on the program imagine having a job no idea when you will work or even if you'll get paid for it sadly that is the situation for a million brits employed on what are called zero hours contracts we'll bring you more on that and the rest of the world's top headlines after a very short break. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution and no i will leave that to the state department a comment on your latter point. security is on the job here no. thank you no more weasel. when you need

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it's a pleasure to have you with us here on our. way to topple egypt's former dictator hosni mubarak that was the key driving force of the revolution but often sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters in the uprising and a successful retrial appeal that followed mubarak could be freed from jail that is today he will however be back in court within just

a few days for further proceedings. true explains how was really became possible in the first place. century the clock has been turned right back to two thousand and eleven just for he started any of these trials so it's almost like he'd never been sentenced in the first place because he's already been in detention for several years now can't keep him in before he's actually sentenced now with he has been in jail obviously because they've been other charges against him knew of charges in regards to corruption now that he's been acquitted of their use there's no reason to keep him in jail however he still have forty hours max for the prosecutor to basically appeal the decision to release him if they decide that he should be released that he will remain in jail that almost see you know how long they'll keep him as that goes forward the reaction on the streets is being wrought largely makes people here are kind of reeling from the situation in the last few days because basically when the bloodiest weeks in egyptian modern history in the fighting between mostly supporters and security forces they're starting to buy that the fun

of hosni mubarak could be free to the same time is almost too much for some revolutionaries here who's speaking to me have told me that what was the point of coming out of the streets two years ago what has been the point of fighting for justice and freedom and bread in the last two and a half years is the very person they started by to get is to be walking free we will see what happens as his trial is start to restart again on the twenty fifth of august at the same time as many other leading muslim brotherhood figures will also stand trial and somewhat ironic that these two that figure is it because it basically to be facing trial at the same time but largely on the streets people are pretty upset that this much hated figure could be seen to be walking home in twenty forty hours. the meantime a car a post award winning journalist a cockney says the situation in egypt has become so bad that the surprising news on the barracks possible release has been pushed all the way to the sidelines. you how president democratically elected president but i did a case against him and move on it's going to be released it's kind of everything's

been flipped over his possible release was just kind of cherry on top for everyone so much has happened so many people died that we brought a conceded into the background the little for a lot of people when you think there was a speedy trial for which the death of the protestors in eighteen days and then you compare the fact that grigory number two to three died in one day last week and put things in perspective for a lot of egyptians and every hour on the our web team is always putting up plenty of news stories for you on line for example we've already seen russians unexpectedly encounter tanks boat sin even fighter jets in their everyday lives but look at this their experience maybe an al scored by that monster beachgoers right now near a kaliningrad you can find out how they're serene sunbathing suddenly just by the sound of these roaring engines an almost hopeful crofts ride that i think footage at all to dot com right now. also if you this hour it's washington's drone program keeps flexing its wings over more and more countries the air force commanders find

themselves short of stuff unable to pilot the soaring need those details also online for you right now. right see. first street. and i think you're. on a reporter's. instrument. in the. are just before the. a growing me of employees in the u.k. are being left in financial limbo this by firms increasingly using the controversial employment tactic of zero hours contracts on the side of reality for the staff working under these conditions means that while they could end up penniless despite spending every waking hour at the job he's probably bought the

reports. you have a job but you don't know when you'll work or if you'll be paid that's the reality for a million brits employed on zero hours contracts mike donald says admitted that it employs ninety percent of its u.k. workforce in this way staff are expected to be ready for work in the mornings in case there's some and by their bosses they also have the right to refuse crucially though there's no guaranteed minimum set of working hours per week hence the zero in the title this man in his twenty's is almost zero hours contract with a well known restaurant chain every morning he waits for the call telling him whether or not he'll have work really in charge of your own destiny as it were while you're while you're working there to be able to say well we're not to make that much profit this week so actually we're trying to do as minimum stuff as we can you guys can all be cut and we'll just do one three stuff this week is

completely and for the government have promised to investigate the controversial employment amidst concerns that leaving an increasing number of brits in financial limbo with few rights low pay and no stability or no guarantee of other jobs or wasn't making enough money to pay the rent was falling behind the number of zero hours contract topic during the recession some economists forecasts that employers will return to hiring workers on better terms when the economy recovers the trade unions buying it in recent months and years we have start to see a growth of say around particularly amongst public sector workers no longer are these small groups of workers who are employed on temporary employment now in some sites is this type of abusive employed ship is becoming the norm macdonald sports direct dominoes and even buckingham palace zero hours employers they've been accused of exploiting people desperate for any kind of work it's part of the race

to drive down the terms and conditions the pay. working people i know fortunately a big business to use in the history measures in the government economic crisis as an excuse to use these contracts but business representatives say that the financial crisis is forcing companies to use zero hours contracts so these people criticize their hours contracts to recognize the impact that that would have on unemployment levels it's actually the flexibility that. wasn't available to employers i don't think it would be acting as the kind of employment stabilizer we're seeing it work out but terms of these contracts may see the bosses but many of the young people on them say that while they're on zero hours they've got zero chance of any financial stability i think they're the wrong no i think they should i think they should shouldn't be less extreme than they are because it was it doesn't happen that you don't have many zero hours and you can sort of expect that at some point you made to. london right now at twenty one minutes

past the hour here in moscow russia's ministry of emergencies says now that the flood situation in some areas of the country is far east is now slowly stabilizing still though the main worry is the city of how bad off where water levels are expected to reach eight meters this weekend so far five thousand people have already been affected margins you workers with erected almost seventeen kilometers of temporary embankment ten of them situated in. the floods have been described as the worst in a century with many thousands of acres of farmland swamped already estimations of more than sixty million dollars worth of damage is being done the high water levels were called a simply by heavy downpours in early july or they're not expected to start receding until early next month. and as promised into the aussie wild up there we go straight to colombia now the protesters have been blockading highways for a third day in various regions locking horns with police thousands of students farm

workers and truckers took to the streets of the capital bogota to demand better working conditions higher wages and free education at the rallies they were part of nationwide protests of the largest government demonstrations seen in decades. to pakistan where a blast has ripped through a train station in the northwest of the country killing at least two and wounding more than a dozen and the bomb exploded near the ticket counter destroying the waiting area and investigations underway into who carried out the attack while emergency services are search for survivors who could still be trapped under the dead brain. where i for the pro cannabis campaign is in a german town they've found a rather strange way to go green arguing that can actually be less harmful than tobacco and alcohol they've literally planted the seeds all over town peter all over the story. it's high time for

a change in the law say activists in the university town the. scene a novel form of protest springing up as around a thousand marijuana plants were added to the leafy city this autonomous group wanted to raise awareness and to get publicity for their cause which was legal as a show of marianna and they just wanted people to stumble over the plants was just something that you would find on your way to work or on your way across town despite an active program of weeding out the weed by authorities it isn't hard to find a spot where the surreptitious seeds have sprouted. in fact what we can find here is that very plant and you can find them in all sorts of random places like this one those behind the planting who call themselves a few autonomous flower children also held an online photo contest to gather pictures of the best birds which the police told me is very handy when it comes to

tracking down the pesky plants and we first got wind of it when someone saw this online contest this is a very big and a very green city the best way for us to find them was to look for landmarks in the picture. many have passed off this stunt is a bit of student high jinks towards the end of the academic year however this could be the start of something far bigger say those in the legal profession i think that this. is an act of civil disobedience should be a starting point for a much wider discussion on legalizing all kinds of drugs are not doing it i am not . made up my mind to it but we should have this discussion supporters of the activists believe that used responsibly cannabis could be far less dangerous than things like alcohol and tobacco many people think that you can actually consume it responsibly. and as soon as you have that responsible approach towards consumption

then it should not be a problem to legalize that supplying the drug carries a prison sentence in germany so far no one. crop has faced any legal action and do to the jury ability of the plant meaning it can grow just about anywhere don't expect these pot pioneers to give up their campaign any time soon peter all over r.t. getting in germany and the global issues come into focus debate with r.t. is worlds apart of that in just a sec as we come to you live from moscow. they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and while obama snubbing

a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stone incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much her feelings are hurt let's not mistake this cancel meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really isn't a bold and possibly dangerous but a call message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk in the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the student but this grandstanding just comes across a silly passing something like a new jackson verda commandment yeah that is how you could show people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because still pretty much to the right thing but that's just my opinion.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart these really palestinian conflict has long been pro-trade as the root cause of all problems in the middle east but the subjugation of palestinians is brutal and the process as it was also had a certain political utility for decades it served as a clue for muslim states which otherwise had little in common and now that the arab spring dispelled the illusion of arab a muslim you need sleep why doesn't believe the israeli palestinian issue well to discuss that i'm now joined by god a car me. a palestinian all star and academic dr karma think you very much for your time now i know that you've been very vocal in articulating that what was done to the palestinians and what is still being done to the palestinians is a crime and i totally agree with you on that issue but i also think that this enormous crime has also become politically expedient to many countries and.